Shavrov, Alexander Alexandrovich (publicist)

Alexander Alexandrovich Shavrov, having completed his education, was briefly in the military service and retired in the early 1860s.

Then Shavrov completely immersed himself in journalism . Possessing erudition in the field of finance, he was selflessly devoted to the interests of his homeland, published articles and feuilletons in various issues of economic, commercial and industrial matters in Golos. The period of creativity Shavrova associated with the height of the shareholder bacchanalia, when Russia was actively built railway networks. It was at that time that journalism was a very profitable business, but Aleksandr Aleksandrovich always paid attention to the harmful aspects of projects and emphasized the shortcomings that could be revealed after the completion of such projects.

Subsequently, Alexander Shavrov became secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Russian Industry and Commerce, and devoted a lot of time to this position - he almost always gave reports at meetings of the society, edited his "Works" and did not miss a single meeting of the council.

But despite this, Shavrov did not leave journalism. In 1872, together with his brother Nikolai Alexandrovich , he became the publisher of the economic newspaper "Exchange", which existed for five years and in 1877 ceased to exist due to the lack of material resources of the publishers for its continuation. Then Alexander Alexandrovich began to publish a daily newspaper, Our Century, but released only 120 issues and for the same reason was forced to stop publishing.

Aleksandrovich Aleksandrovich Shavrov died on June 2, 1879. Buried at Smolensk cemetery .

• Shavrov, Alexander Alexandrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• When writing this article, material from A. A. Polovtsov ’s Russian Biographical Dictionary (1896–1918) was used.